Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

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[miltonim]

The purpose of this thread is to post links to articles on FreeRepublic on the topic of Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all other non-Muslims

For example:

Muslim Rioters Destroy 13 Churches
www.barnabasfund.org
Nigeria
November 21, 2003
Posted on 11/30/2003 1:49 PM EST by miltonim

[miltonim]

The Assyrians in the Christian Asia Minor Holocaust
600s-2002
Excerpt: During the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Orhan (1326-1362), the first recorded mass kidnapping of male Christian children occurred. The abductees were imprisoned, converted to Islam and Turkified; they formed the infamous Janissary (from the Turkish words Yeni Ceri, New Troops) corps. Young girls were also taken, converted to Islam and kept as harem girls in the palaces of senior military and civil officials. The “lucky” ones were married to their abductors after being forcibly converted to Islam. The children of these girls were subsequently raised as Muslim Turks.

[Robert Drobot]

WOW!!! It's going to take a while to get through your collection of data. Nonetheless, thank you.

[miltonim]

Iraq Militants Kill 12 Nepali Hostages (August 2004)
Excerpt: The Nepalis were kidnapped earlier this month when they entered Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm. The killing of men from a tiny country that had nothing to do with the invasion or occupation of Iraq will send shockwaves through foreign companies doing business here. "We have carried out the sentence of God against 12 Nepalis who came from their country to fight the Muslims and to serve the Jews and the Christians ... believing in Buddha as their God," said the statement by the military committee of the Army of Ansar al-Sunna.

[miltonim]

FAITH UNDER FIRE: Iraqi Christians face persecution...
2004
Excerpt: On June 7, four masked men drove into the Christian Assyrian Quarters of the Dora district of Baghdad and opened fire on Assyrians going to work. Four were killed and several others wounded.

[miltonim]

EXPULSION OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS FROM ARABIA
635-636 AD
Excerpt: Christian inhabitants removed from Nejran. In the centre of Arabia lies the province of Nejran, inhabited from of old by a Christian people. Mohammad concluded a treaty with their Chiefs and Bishops, which on payment of a tribute of 2000 pieces of cloth, valued at 40 dirhems each, secured them in the undisturbed profession of their ancestral faith. Throughout the rebellion they remained loyal to their engagements, and Abu Bekr renewed the treaty. Worthy descendants of a persecuted race, they resisted the blandishments of Islam; and as a penalty they must now quit their native soil, consecrated by the ashes of their martyred forefathers.1 They were ordered to depart and take land in exchange elsewhere, or accept a money payment. Some migrated to Syria; but the greater part settled in the vicinity of Al-Kufa, where the colony of Nejrania long maintained the memory of their expatriation.

[miltonim]

Sharon urges exodus of Jews from France
July 2004
Excerpt: The latest French Interior Ministry figures show 510 anti-Jewish acts or threats in the first six months of 2004 - compared to 593 for all of last year. Anti-Semitic acts against Jewish schools, synagogues and cemeteries have risen in France in recent years, coinciding with growing tensions in the Middle East. Many attacks have been blamed on young Muslims.

[miltonim]

Anti-Semitism in France: Not only for Jews
2004
Excerpt: As always in history, it starts with the Jews but then others get attacked. A few months back, in a large Parisian department store, I witnessed a very revealing incident: a woman was strolling with her baby, while behind her a very distinguished and hurried Arab woman wanted her to walk faster. She then pushed the mother and told her, “Move, you dirty French.” So the very common epithet “Dirty Jew” is turning very soon into “Dirty French.”

[miltonim]

Muslim raid kills 48 (Christians) in Nigeria [hacked to death inside their Church]
February 2004
Excerpt: They were hacked down on Tuesday when Muslim warriors attacked Yelwa town in the mainly Christian district of Shendam. The Plateau police commissioner, Innocent Ilozuoke, told reporters in the state capital, Jos: "The victims were pursued to a church - they ran to for refuge and were killed.

[miltonim]

Christians Begin Exodus From Iraq
June 2004
Excerpt: "We have been flooded with parishioners desperate to leave the country, and as they cannot get an exit permit without a baptismal certificate from the church we have been swamped with requests. ... In recent days nearly 400 families as far as we can tell have filled out baptismal forms to leave the country. Our community is being decimated."... "We want to stay. This is our homeland," the priest said. "But if we do not have a place where we can go, if we will be persecuted daily by Muslims again we cannot stay. We are appealing to the world to help us -- to guarantee us an area where we can be protected, where we can live in peace and where we can worship in freedom."

[miltonim]

Christians flee Muslim mobs
Nigeria
May 2004

Excerpt: Kano - Thousands of Christians have fled the suburbs of the northern Nigerian city of Kano to seek police protection after coming under attack from Muslim mobs, a reporter saw on Wednesday. At least 5 000 refugees, mainly from the Sharada industrial district of the city, had gathered or been brought under escort to Kano State's main police headquarters, many with nothing but the clothes on their backs. "Many people have been killed in Sharada, but we have not been able to bring out their bodies, because we had to look to our own lives" said 37-year-old foundry worker Joshua Adamu.

[miltonim]

Cool gunmen hunted down Christians
Saudi Arabia
May 2004
Excerpt: "Don't be afraid. We won't kill Muslims - even if you are an American," he quoted them as saying. ..."They gave me a lecture on Islam and said they were defending their country and ridding it of infidels," he said in an interview at the Qusaibi hotel. ...While talking to the gunmen he saw the bloodied body of a Swedish cook who worked in the compound, Abu Hashem said. He had been shot dead. An American, a Briton, an Egyptian, two Filipinos, an Indian, a Pakistani and nine Saudis, mostly security men, were also killed on Saturday, security sources said.

[miltonim]

Enemy Islam. An Interview with the Bishop of Rumbek, Sudan
June 2004

Excerpt:
Q. – Are there Catholics who convert to Islam?
A. – “Yes, unfortunately. Pushed by hunger, at least 3 million have headed north and have had to profess the shahada, the public profession of Muslim faith, in order to find jobs. These converts are then fire-branded, literally being stamped on their sides like cows so as to distinguish them from infidels.”

[miltonim]

FAITH UNDER FIRE Sudan slave 'crucified' by master
1987

Excerpt:
...since the 1980s, the Muslim National Islamic Front government has sanctioned the taking of Christians and animists from the south part of the nation to be sold to Muslims as slaves in the north..."After brutally beating Joseph on the head and all over his body, the master laid him out on a wooden plank. He then nailed Joseph to the plank by driving nine-inch nails through his hands, knees and feet. He then poured acid on Joseph's legs to inflict even greater pain, and finally left him for dead." ..."no criminal charges were brought against Joseph's master, because he acted within his 'rights' under currently practiced 'sharia law.' ..."To say that Christians are second-class citizens in much of the Islamic world (not just the Sudan) is a cruel understatement."

[miltonim]

Iran Arrests 80 Evangelicals, Amid Fears of New Crackdown on Christians
September 2004
Excerpt: Iranian police invaded the annual conference of Iran’s Assemblies of God and arrested at least 80 church leaders at the church’s denominational center near Tehran.

[miltonim]

Religions in Eritrea
1530-1541
Excerpt: Another great power came in the person of the Imam of Harrar, Ahmad bin Ibrahim, better known as Ahmad Gran (the left-handed). In 1530 he began to attack the plateau. Within four years he laid waste to all of the Christian highlands, including Tigre and Eritrea. He converted hundreds of thousands to Islam by force. Only by surrender and conversion could people save their lives. The Christian nobility survived only as a hunted band.

[miltonim]

Two Christians killed and nine churches vandalized in Nigeria in protest against visit (2001)
December 2001
Excerpt: One of the dead men, a pastor’s son, had been spotted by Muslim youths putting up posters advertising the Bonnke event on the previous day. According to eyewitnesses, he was targeted by Muslim assailants who forced their way into the family home, strangled him, and then dragged his corpse a kilometer away from his house. The crowd also stormed All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Isale-Aro, but the minister and his family managed to escape the attackers. The riot was said to have been incited by the Tafsir (the daily Ramadan sermon) of a radical preacher named Alfa Adegbite.

[miltonim]

CHRISTIANS ATTACKED AND KILLED BY ISLAMIC FANATICS IN NIGERIA (July 2002)

Excerpt:
Bishop Ben writes: "Dear Brothers and Sisters, Peace and greetings. We are asking for prayers for strength, for courage, for protection, for help from God. Only God can help now. In September I asked for your prayers for Jos and for Plateau state. At that time I said that Satan had unleashed hell on us. I was wrong. What he did then was to release only a sting from hell. Now we are having some form of blast from hell......We are facing a new Muslim onslaught. Terror has been released on the majority Christian population of the Plateau.

[miltonim]

Bombing of Church in Nigeria on Anniversary of Twin Towers Attack (September 17, 2002)

Excerpt: Explosion on September 11 at the Church of Christ in Nigeria in the Laranto suburb of the state capital Jos

[miltonim]

40-THOUSAND CHRISTIANS FLEE IRAQ, OFFICIAL SAYS (August 2004)

Excerpt: The number of fleeing Christians was much higher than previously estimated, and more believers were expected to follow amid signs of growing Muslim violence in areas such as the troubled town of Najaf, although the Vatican said late Tuesday, August 17, it was prepared to mediate a halt to the fighting.

[miltonim]

CAMEROON: CHRISTIANS THREATENED (August 2004)

Excerpt: Foreign Islamists ('outside agitators') infiltrating northern Cameroon are reported to have 'literally inundated [northern Cameroon] with fliers inciting Muslims towards a hatred of Christians'. The Islamists are urging Muslims to marry and convert young Christian girls, as well as drive Christians from the region by raising rents or refusing to rent property to them. According to Bishop Yves Steven of Extreme North Province, some Christians have already been forcibly evicted from their homes.